OBI OBI HALL

OBI OBI RURAL FIRE BRIGADE

A farm bushfire preparation information session will be held

at Obi Obi Hall – 9am to 12pm Saturday 15^th June 2024

Speakers will provide information on – Rural fire brigades

Landscaping and bushfires – Personal safety during wildfires

Assisting wildlife in bushfires – Fire permits and your property

Some great knapsack sprayers to be given as lucky door prizes

Rsvp – obiobi.rfb@gmail.com or contact – Alice 0400 140 893

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Fire Ants found at Bells Creek on the Sunshine Coast

A member of the community reported 2 nests in a new development site in Nirimba (Bells Creek), Sunshine Coast on 27 May 2024. Both nests were destroyed using liquid insecticide on 29 May, and the ants were confirmed as fire ants later that day. Surveillance and broadscale treatment are underway across the area surrounding the detection.

See

https://www.fireants.org.au/stop-the-spread/outlier-detections#:~:text=Nirimba%20(Bells%20Creek)%2C%20Sunshine%20Coast&text=Both%20nests%20were%20destroyed%20using,the%20area%20surrounding%20the%20detection.

https://www.fireants.org.au/

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OBI OBI HALL – Community Dinner

Saturday 29^th June from 6pm onwards

Varied menu                 BYO

donations accepted

Please book early

Email – obiobihall@gmail.com

Eva Ford

Catchment Officer

Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee

Dear landholder.

Each year the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee provides assistance to landholders in the Sunshine Coast hinterland to access funding support through the Sunshine Coast Council’s annual Landholder Environment Grant (LEG) program; funded by your Environment Levy. Support up to $15,000 per property is available through for on-ground projects that help protect and enhance the natural values of the area. More than 95% of projects that the MRCCC assists with are successful in obtaining funding through this fabulous program. Eligible projects include: 

·          – stock exclusion fencing to protect waterways and other ecologically significant areas

·          – off-stream watering systems

·          – environmental weed control

·          – stream bank stabilisation

·          – erosion control

·          – revegetation

The application process is accessed on-line and is multi-staged:

1.      The first stage is to decide what your project will look like. I can help you with that through a property visit and planning session with you (please book this with me ASAP as I’ll be working remotely for a while from the 12^th July).

2.      Submit an ‘Expression Of Interest’ (EOI). EOIs can be submitted from the 8^th July to the 12^th August 2024.

3.      You will be visited by a Conservation Officer from the Sunshine Coast Council to approve your project and activate your application for funding.

4.      Fill out and submit the application by mid-October 2024. I am available to assist you one-on-one through this process; project planning, mapping, budget development. Your project may dove-tail into other MRCCC programs that can enhance the outcomes of your project and give you further assistance.

You will hear if you are successful late in the year and the funds will be available for you to use during 2025.

Please call or email me to make a time to discuss project possibilities on your property.

I look forward to working with you and your community to enhance our natural environment.

Warm regards,

Eva Ford

Catchment Officer

Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee

Phone: 07 5482 4766

eva.ford@mrccc.org.au

25 Stewart Terrace

Gympie

QLD 4570